From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unable to close a bug in the tracker. Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:29:35 +0900 Message-ID: <87k4vg3rr4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87iqb5o7ie.fsf@red-bean.com> <7b501d5c1001140141i4de045bma15759d59e442dfe@mail.gmail.com> <7b501d5c1001152002q1ac6a83fheb2e439fa859ae3a@mail.gmail.com> <83fx66cvxa.fsf@gnu.org> <874ommwbvr.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <877hri2tfu.fsf@telefonica.net> <87ljfw3v94.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263792197 6463 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2010 05:23:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:23:17 +0000 (UTC) To: Miles Bader , =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 18 06:23:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NWk4y-0007LX-AZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:23:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53831 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWk4y-0001xN-SI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWk3Z-0001Kj-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:21:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWk3U-0001GZ-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:21:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49574 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWk3U-0001GN-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:21:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:56786) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWk3S-00037W-FI; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:21:34 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCAE820E; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:21:32 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D02621A35F6; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:29:35 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87ljfw3v94.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" a03421eb562b XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120183 Archived-At: Stephen J. Turnbull writes: > > (2) How convenient a particular interface (web / emacs / generic email) > > is depends on the operation > Nope. It varies by project Oh yeah, I forgot one *very* important use case for (moderately clueful users *and* developers) wanting a web interface rather than an email interface: bug triage. This is a service that non-project-developer users successfully provide to many projects. And don't mention Gnus. For all practical purposes, Gnus *is* a web interface (ie, you can access pretty much any Internet resource via Gnus). :-)